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IN MOVIES AND on television lately, Hollywood has made encryption and decryption look exciting, glamorous, and worldsaving. The film The Imitation Game and the BBC show The Bletchley Circle chronicle how British code breakers decrypted military strategy codes from the Nazi encryption tool called Enigma. History buffs know that decryption technology and the military advantage it provided shortened World War II by an estimated two years, saving untold thousands of lives. Encryption and decryption—particularly encryption—is still a high stakes game today when it comes to protecting valuable data like personal health information.
DESPITE BENEFITS, TECHNOLOGY STILL NOT WIDELY USED TO COMBAT MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BREACHES By Mary Butler
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Journal of AHIMA April 15 / 19
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IN MOVIES AND on television lately, Hollywood has made encryption and decryption look exciting, glamorous, and worldsaving. The film The Imitation Game and the BBC show The Bletchley Circle chronicle how British code breakers decrypted military strategy codes from the Nazi encryption tool called Enigma. History buffs know that decryption technology and the military advantage it provided shortened World War II by an estimated two years, saving untold thousands of lives. Encryption and decryption—particularly encryption—is still a high stakes game today when it comes to protecting valuable data like personal health information.
DESPITE BENEFITS, TECHNOLOGY STILL NOT WIDELY USED TO COMBAT MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BREACHES By Mary Butler
18 / Journal of AHIMA April 15
Journal of AHIMA April 15 / 19
